Web Directory

» American Film Institute: 100 Years 100 Laughs
   AFI's pick of one hundred funniest US films. Features description of selection procedure, list of the winning films, list of the 500 nominated films.
   http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/laughs.aspx

» Filmsite: Comedy Films
   Analysis of the comedy genre. Features sub-genre classification, history, profiles of directors and actors, and selection of the "greatest" comedy films.
   http://www.filmsite.org/comedyfilms.html

» GreenCine: British Comedy
   Essay on British comedy films. Includes history, recommendations.
   http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/britcom1.jsp

» IMDB: Best Italian Comedy Titles
   Chart of the top Italian comedy movies according to users of the Internet Movie Database. Includes ratings and links to movie pages.
   http://www.imdb.com/keyword/italian-comedy/

» Laughing Out Loud Comedies
   Movies ranked by ability to make the site's author laugh. Includes reviews and user comments.
   http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/v_funniest-comedies.html

» Poetics Today: Humor Mechanisms in Film Comedy
   Research article. Discusses several types of incongruity and superiority that underlie humor in comedy films.
   http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.129.3339

» Satire Screening Room
   About the comedy films "Being There", "The Graduate" and "MASH". Includes reviews, still shots, sound clips, scripts and credits.
   http://sarcasmalley.com

» SoYouWanna Comedy Movies
   Reviews five comedies. Includes Airplane!, The Breakfast Club, The Graduate, Some Like it Hot and Tootsie.
   http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/movies/comedy/comedy.html

» Spartan Daily
   Article that analyzes the "gross-out" comedy genre.
   http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2003/04/29/UndefinedSection/GrossOut.Comedies.No.Laughing.Matter-1496856.shtml

» The Comedy 25
   Entertainment Weekly's pick of the 25 funniest movies. Includes pictures and user comments.
   http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20221235,00.html

» Top 25 Comedies of All Time
   Selection of comedies by IGN Movies. Features still shots, plot summaries, reviews and comments.
   http://movies.ign.com/articles/674/674712p1.html

» Top 50 Comedy Films
   Chart of the top fifty comedy movies according to users of the Internet Movie Database. Includes ratings and links to movie pages.
   http://www.imdb.com/chart/comedy

» Top French-Language Comedy Movies
   Selection of ten French comedies. Features short reviews.
   http://french.about.com/library/reviews/aatp-moviesc.htm